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Washington and Lee Law Council Law Review Award

Each year, Washington and Lee Law Review staffwriters (second-year law students) are required to write a Note on an issue of current interest in the law with the help of a faculty advisor and a member of the Law Review editorial board. All entries submitted to the board are evaluated for quality of writing and use of correct citation formatting. Authors of the two notes chosen as most outstanding receive one of two awards along with a cash prize, either The Roy L. Steinheimer Law Review Award or the W&L Law Council Law Review Award. The authors present their Notes to faculty, staff, and students at the Law Review Student Notes Program the following year, when the authors serve as editors on the Law Review board. These notes, along with other well-written student notes, are published in the Washington and Lee Law Review.

Winner from 2021 2021

Blind Justice: Virginia’s Jury Sentencing Scheme and Impermissible Burdens on a Defendant’s Right to a Jury Trial, Mitchell E. McCloy

Winner from 2020 2020

Supervisors Without Supervision: Colon, McKenna, and the Confusing State of Supervisory Liability in the Second Circuit, Ryan E. Johnson

Winner from 2019 2019

If a Tree Falls in a Roadway, Is Anyone Liable?: Proposing the Duty of Reasonable Care for Virginia’s Road-Maintaining Entities, Ian J. McElhaney

Winner from 2018 2018

The Off-Label Use of POM Wonderful: Using Section 43(a) to Eliminate Misleading Off-Label Drug Promotion, Christopher A. Hurley

Winner from 2017 2017

Examining Rule 11(b)(1)(N) Error: Guilty Pleas, Appellate Waiver, and Dominguez Benitez, Leanna C. Minix

Winner from 2016 2016

The Freedom to Pursue a Common Calling: Applying Intermediate Scrutiny to Occupational Licensing Statutes, Alexandra L. Klein

Winner from 2015 2015

“Groove is in the Hart”: A Workable Solution for Applying the Right of Publicity to Video Games, R. Garrett Rice

Winner from 2014 2014

CAD’s Cradle: Untangling Copyrightability, Derivative Works, and Fair Use in 3D Printing, Kyle Dolinsky

Winner from 2013 2013

Sheltering Psychiatric Patients from the DeShaney Storm: A Proposed Analysis for Determining Affirmative Duties to Voluntary Patients, Claire Marie Hagan

Winner from 2012 2012

Open the Door, Not the Floodgates: Controlling Qui Tam Litigation Under the False Claims Act, Christopher M. Alexion

Winner from 2011 2011

SIGTARP and the Executive-Legislative Clash: Confronting a Bowsher Issue with an Eye Toward Preserving the Separation of Powers During Future Crisis Legislation, Aaron R. Sims

Winner from 2010 2010

Beyond BATSA: Getting Serious About State Corporate Tax Reform, Quinn T. Ryan

Winner from 2009 2009

Wrongs Committed During a Marriage: The Child that No Area of the Law Wants to Adoptt, Michelle L. Evans

Winner from 2008 2008

Tearing Fashion Design Protection Apart at the Seams, Lisa J. Hedrick

Winner from 2007 2007

Reconciling Ring v. Arizona with the Current Structure of the Federal Capital Murder Trial: The Case for Trifurcation, Donald M. Houser

Winner from 2006 2006

Tipping the Scales: Seeking Death Through Comparative Value Argumentst, Erin McCampbell

Winner from 2005 2005

For Whom the Court Tolls: Equitable Tolling of the AEDPA Statute of Limitations in Capital Habeas Cases, Aaron G. McCullough

Winner from 2004 2004

Evidence-Based Medicine in the Law Beyond Clinical Practice Guidelines: What Effect Will EBM Have on the Standard of Care?, Carter L. Williams

Winner from 2003 2003

The Need for Comity: A Proposal for Federal Court Review of Suppression Issues in the Dual Sovereignty Context After the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Carrie M. Bowden

Winner from 2002 2002

The Proof Is in the Policy: The Bush Administration, Nonpoint Source Pollution, and EPA's Final TMDL Rule, R. Bryant McCulley